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  "id": 2607482,
  "name": "M. O. Walker v. The City of Chicago",
  "name_abbreviation": "Walker v. City of Chicago",
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  "first_page": "286",
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      "cite": "62 Ill. 286"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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      "cite": "56 Ill. 354",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "M. O. Walker v. The City of Chicago."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam:\nThe ordinance in this case is in the precise terms of that in the case of Foss v. City of Chicago, 56 Ill. 354, and there held void.\nThe judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.\n\u2022 Judgment reversed.",
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        "author": "Per Curiam:"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. Edward Eoby, for the appellant.",
      "Mr. M. F. Tuley, for the-appellee."
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    "head_matter": "M. O. Walker v. The City of Chicago.\n1. Special assessments in the city of Chicago\u2014by whom to be determined\u2014 validity of an ordinance in that regard. Under the law on the subject of special assessments in the city of Chicago, for public improvements, the responsibility of prescribing what improvements shall be made, and the mode, manner, and extent of them is upon the common council. An ordinance which undertakes to vest in the board of public works the discretion of determining either, the mode, manner, or extent of an improvement is void.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.\nThis is an appeal from a judgment rendered upon a special assessment warrant.\nMr. Edward Eoby, for the appellant.\nMr. M. F. Tuley, for the-appellee."
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  "file_name": "0286-01",
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